This work explores ways in which developing language used to describe immigrant groups reflects labor, industrial and land development interests, which may still influence our perceptions today. The site is both a digital exhibit and a pedagogical tool that can be used to form new connections and create original work. The work was designed to provide researchers with multiple "ways in" to the material, depending on learning preferences, and serves as a model for how we can analyze, host and curate a large and diverse amount of material and present it in accessible and engaging ways to encourage future research.

Incomplete, out-of-date, or inaccurate information in Scarecrow Video’s Oz database hinders staffs’ ability to help patrons find desired titles and keep track of the collection. As of Spring 2022, we have corrected and added metadata–such as alternate titles, UPC and IMDB numbers, supplemental information, etc.–for 440 Film Noir titles, 614 Sci-Fi TV titles, and 459 Disney titles, totaling 1,512 revised titles. This project will improve accessibility for staff and patrons. Given the unique collection held at Scarecrow, cleaner and more up-to-date metadata will make it easier for staff to assist customers in finding their desired materials.

The Japanese American experience has long been defined by incarceration; however, that has led many to overlook other important wartime experiences. This digital humanities project aims to highlight the role that Minnesotan colleges and other educational institutions played in defining the nisei experience during World War II. Using archival material, the project demonstrates that there was no single institutional response; rather, each institution charted its own path with varying results for nisei. By focusing on the institutional responses, this project promotes a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the ways in which institutions can either help or hinder those facing injustices.

Saint Mary Catholic Church in Corvallis, Oregon, was founded in 1861. Its parish archive opened in 1981. Unfortunately, the archives are tucked in a locked room in the parish hall, preventing newcomers from learning the history of the parish. A website was created to solve this information problem: attached to the main parish website, this site allows parishioners, community members, and those interested in church history to connect with these artifacts. This online resource serves as a door-opener: delivering a portrait of the 160-year history of the parish. 

The Svoboda Diaries Project is a digital humanities collection of 49 diaries that cover the life of Joseph Svoboda as he traded up and down the Tigris river in the Ottoman Empire during the late 19th century. We’ve been working to standardize their implementation of TEI, updating the existing TEI to fit current standards and creating guidelines and future work guides to help direct implementation of the metadata on a broad scale.

Bellevue High School has yearbooks (The Beacon) going back to 1924 stored in the back room of the Library. The older yearbooks are fragile and important to the history of BHS, so it is important for stakeholders to be able to access them. I created an Online Archive complete through 1950 so that anyone can access our Beacon collection at any time without negative consequences for the materials. This project makes a difference for our Bellevue community because now students, staff, alumni, and community members can access these historical documents and learn about the history of BHS.

The project of democracy relies on the public's access to information about government activities. This project increased government transparency and accountability by making archival materials about the Seattle Department of Transportation's urban forestry activities discoverable and accessible. At the beginning of the project, the materials had been backlogged for ten years, disorganized, mixed in with irrelevant items, and unlisted in any public-facing document. This project saw those materials organized by topic and year, labeled, and made discoverable and accessible for patrons. The new, online finding aid provides metadata to help patrons find materials and thick descriptions to give broader context.

GSK’s Heritage Archives maintains the research of Nobel-laurate and biochemist Gertrude Elion. Despite the importance of Elion’s collection, it was hard for archivists to access due to highly scientific terminology, lack of organization, extent, and deteriorated state. To address this problem, I arranged, labeled, and rehoused the physical collection into archival storage containers and created a finding aid that featured a breakdown of Elion’s research. To prevent similar occurrences with future scientific acquisitions, I created a processing guide for research collections. Through this work, users can now confidently access Elion’s and future collections, regardless of their own scientific backgrounds.

The Tutankhamun Centenary: 1922 – 2022 website hosts a collection of Howard Carter’s personal documents and articles from the Times of London describing the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. The wealth of information related here had been out of public view for the past 100 years, so this project sought to make these documents accessible to both academics and the curious public. We learned how to use digital tools and platforms to create an online archive; we learned how to document,preserve, and present historical materials; we created metadata and a keyword list; and we integrated our archive into an interactive timeline.

Volunteers are an integral part to most non-profit organizations, but often these organizations don’t have the resources to build a sustainable volunteer program. The Volunteer Sustainability Toolkit provides a guide to help onboard and train volunteers while maintaining the volunteer program, regardless of organizational turnover.